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Jean Valentine

The author of many collections of poetry, Jean Valentine has received such honors as the National Book Award, being selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the Wallace Stevens Award...
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Red Cloth
by Jean Valentine

Red cloth I lie on the ground otherwise nothing could hold I put my hand on the ground the membrane is gone and nothing does hold your place in the ground is all of it and it is breathing

Copyright © 2009 by Jean Valentine. Originally published in The Nation. Used by permission of the author.

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